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UNESCO designed the project “UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme” (UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowship Programme) in the framework of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the Capacity-Building of Human Resources which was established in November 2000 by the Government of Japan to enable UNESCO to give impetus to research in four areas under UNESCO’s Priority Programme Areas. The…

UNESCO MGIEP and ActionAid Arab Regional Initiative will be organizing the 8th edition of the Talking Across Generations on Education as the main launch event. Along the vision of mobilizing youth voices for inclusion in the highest levels of policymaking processes, the TAGe will bring together, on an equal platform, 9 distinguished Arab youth and 3 senior decision…

In collaboration with UNESCO and a number of centres of excellence in the South, TWAS has instituted a Joint Associateship Scheme to enable competent researchers from the South to visit these centres regularly. An associate is appointed for three years during which he/she can visit a Centre twice for research collaboration. TWAS provides travel support…

Every year on World Arabic Language Day (18 December), UNESCO organizes its visiting journalists program. This year, the Organization will invite 12 journalists from the Arab region and Arabic speaking countries to its Headquarters in Paris (France) to raise awareness about UNESCO’s mandate, activities and programs. Through this program, UNESCO also aims at establishing close…

UNESCO supports the call for the best and brightest answers to social opportunities and challenges through media and information literacy in connection with the launch of the first Global MIL Youth hackathon by our partners DesignEDly and Global Students Square. Winners of the three-day hackathon will be eligible for seed funding from an investment pool…

The Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week Youth Agenda Forum will take place on 26 October, 2018, at the University of Latvia, in Riga. The forum will seek to answer many pressing questions: how young people can act as MIL agents of positive changes in the era of digital algorithms? What can they do…

The UNESCO/Emir Jaber Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (hereafter the Prize) is to recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations in promoting the inclusion; and enhancing the lives of persons with disabilities through the application of digital solutions, resources and technologies. In line with UNESCO’s…

The annual celebration of Global MIL Week will take place from 24 to 31 October this year, under the theme “Media and Information Literate Cities: Voices, Powers, and Change Makers”. Its Feature Conference, the Eighth MIL and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference, will be held from 24 to 25 October 2018 in Kaunas, Lithuania, under the same…

The UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels is looking for a consultant for a period of six months to ensure follow-up of ongoing cooperation with the EU institutions, notably with the Committee of Culture and Education of the European Parliament, the Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC), the Directorate General for International Cooperation and…

The Ideosync-UNESCO-Information Fellowship (IUIF) aims to take young Indians through an intense 13 month-long leadership journey that sets them on the path to understand Communication for Social Change and Media from a rights perspective, and leverage its power to create new pathways for information creation, access and sharing, leading to better social, political and economic…